Barry Jenkins spent four years of his life bringing Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Underground Railroad” to the screen.
In point of fact, he began working on the adaption before his Best Picture-winning, landmark drama “Moonlight” had even premiered at the 2016 Telluride Film Festival.
He made another impressive film in the interim, “If Beale Street Could Talk,” but was always shepherding “Underground” on the side, a project that morphed into a 10-episode Amazon Studios mini-series that became his sole focus in 2019 and 2020.
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